Strikes

Basque doctors have taken to the streets for the second time this week against the general statute agreed by the Ministry of Health. Medicuas, which calls on the Ministry of Health to have the power to negotiate working conditions. Gutxien services will be established until Friday to claim the rights of doctors. 

The stops will begin on March 27 and will take effect on April 1 (Wednesday), April 3 (Good Friday) and April 6 (Easter Monday). Workers demand that the CPI differential and purchasing power be maintained. Handling would affect all airports in the state where that company provides service.

In interviews with Radio Euskadi and Euskadi Irratia, the secretaries-general of LAB and ELA have stated that yesterday's demonstrations were "very massive, with up to 135,000 people gathered." "We have emerged strengthened," said LAB General Coordinator Garbiñe Aranburu. 

They are charged with public disorder and five others are under investigation and 165 have been identified.

In the areas of care and cleaning, hospitality and tourism, shops, logistics and agriculture, it is customary in these areas to take the minimum wage as a reference for the establishment of wages. Workers report that they cannot live with what they receive and consider it essential to raise it to 1,500 euros in order to live in dignity.

Called by the Basque Medical Union, doctors have joined the demands of the general strike of the 17M. Doctors began their second week of strike yesterday to demand their own status.

Spokeswoman Maria Ubarretxena has agreed to demand a minimum wage of her own, but not the path of confrontation to achieve it.

A number of people have entered the tent where the shutter was semi-closed, causing disturbances and material damage, the images show.

The unions ELA, LAB, Steilas, ESK, Hiru and Etxalde have called a general strike for today in Hegoalde for an SMI of their own, under the slogan 'Decide the minimum wage here.

A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.

At the cry of "Today, general strike" and "Fighting is the only way," several people have closed the exit road from Bilbao, San Mamés, early in the morning.

ELA, LAB, Steilas, Etxalde and Hiru have pointed out that the activity  is much lower than that of a regular working day and that traffic density has fallen significantly.

In an interview with Euskadi Irratia, ELA's Secretary General, Mitxel Lakuntza, explained that the unions had to go on strike because the Basque Parliament had closed the door to the popular legislative initiative and the Confebask employers had refused to negotiate.

Although the right to strike is not guaranteed, domestic workers' groups will join Tuesday's mobilizations. To express their agreement with the strike, they will wear an orange bracelet on that day while working.

ELA, LAB, Steilas, Hiru and Etxalde have pointed out that the support for the  strike is being "very broad" and that the working committees of 1,750 companies and hundreds of social partners have already joined the 24-hour unemployment.

Agents of the Ertzaintza have asked him to be released and, by refusing to do so, an ertzaina has broken the chain with a shear and identified him, an action in which balls have also been thrown at the internal entrance of the Basque Parliament, in which LAB recalls the reasons for the call, as well as the fact that "there is a ball in the court" of the Basque Government to have its own minimum wage.

A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.

Today's unemployment will begin with mobilizations in Bilbao and tomorrow there will be protests in the three territories of the Basque Autonomous Community.